Jeffrey Epstein (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)
Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire hedge fund manager,
settled in court Tuesday more than a decade after his saga of ****** exploitation of underage girls was revealed by the Palm Beach police in 2005.
According to an
investigation by the Miami Herald, from at least 2001 to 2005, Epstein lured underage girls to his Palm Beach mansion to partake in a network of ****** exploitation.
From 1989 up until 2003,
Epstein donated more than $139,000 to Democratic federal candidates and committees and over $18,000 to Republican candidates and groups, according to data from OpenSecrets.
Notable recipients include former President Bill Clinton and former Senator
Bob Packwood, a Republican. In 2003, a couple of years before a full-scale investigation into the allegations of ****** exploitation of underage girls, his political giving abruptly stopped.
From 1999 to 2003, Epstein donated $77,000 to Democrats John Kerry,
Richard Gephardt,
Chris Dodd, and other high-profile politicians and committees. Dodd received a $1,000 contribution from Epstein during his reelection campaign in 2003, however, the contribution was returned in 2006.
After a hiatus in political giving during the investigations into his ****** abuse, Epstein gave to independent Connecticut House candidate
Gwendolyn Beck in 2014 and U.S. Virgin Islands Democratic Delegate
Stacey Plaskett both in 2016 and the most recent midterms (Epstein owns a private island in the Virgin Islands called Little Saint James).
Most recently, Epstein contributed $10,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in October 2018. It was swiftly returned by the committee four days later.